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History on the 21st of October

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21 Oct 1532 RELIGIOUS German reformer Martin Luther declared: 'For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.'
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21 Oct 1692 RELIGIOUS William Penn was deposed as Governor of Pennsylvania. His overtures of gratefulness to James II for permitting religious freedom for dissenters of the Church of England led William and Mary to charge Penn with being a papist.
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21 Oct 1751 RELIGIOUS The first Baptist association in the American South was organized at Charleston, SC. It was formed under the initiative of Oliver Hart, who had left the Philadelphia area to become pastor of the Charleston Baptist Church in 1749.
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21 Oct 1808 RELIGIOUS Birth of American Baptist clergyman Samuel Francis Smith. Credited with writing over 100 hymns, Smith is best remembered as the author of "America" ("My Country, 'Tis of Thee"), written at age 23, while a student at Andover Seminary.
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21 Oct 1892 RELIGIOUS Birth of James L Kelso, American Presbyterian archaeologist. He participated in digs at the biblical sites of Debir, Bethel and Jericho, and authored the text "Ceramic Vocabulary of the O.T."
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21 Oct 1914 WW2 Near Ypres, Belgium, British commanders ordered the troops to fall back in the evening. 
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21 Oct 1916 WW2 The Austrian Prime Minister Karl Stürgkh was assassinated by Friedrich Adler, the son of the Socialists' leader. Adler was never brought to trial. 
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21 Oct 1919 WW2 The work on carrier Eagle was paused as Chile negotiated with the United Kingdom to regain ownership of the ship still under construction, offering £1,500,000. The British Admiralty rejected the offer after calculating that it would cost £2,500,000 to convert the ship back to battleship configuration that Chile wanted to receive. 
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21 Oct 1919 WW2 Roderick Carr was removed from the active list of British Roayl Air Force. 
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21 Oct 1929 WW2 The Do X aircraft took its 70th test flight, breaking a record with 169 people on board. 
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21 Oct 1937 WW2 Spanish Republican-held stronghold of Gijón surrendered, allowing the whole northern coast of Spain to pass into Nationalist control. In Gijón harbor, the Spanish Republican destroyer Ciscar was sunk Nationalist aircraft. 
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21 Oct 1938 WW2 HMS Gurkha (L52) was commissioned into service with Commander F. R. Parham in command. 
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21 Oct 1938 WW2 Adolf Hitler issued the order to his top military commanders noting that German forces must be ready to seize the remainder of Czechoslovakia and Memel in Lithuania with minimal notice. 
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21 Oct 1938 WW2 Japanese troops captured the city of Guangzhou in Southern China nearly unopposed. The city was afire from both heavy Japanese bombing in the previous few days as well as from fires set by the retreating Chinese troops. 
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21 Oct 1938 WW2 Japanese troops captured Chinese gunboat Yongji at Xinti, Hubei, China. 
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21 Oct 1938 WW2 Before dawn, HMS Birmingham sailed along the coast of Gulangyu island, an international zone, near Xiamen, China. At 0800 hours, she sailed into Xiamen harbor between four columns of Japanese war ships by surprise; Birmingham's crew was able to take photographs of classified Japanese naval equipment such as fire controls and radar antennae before the Japanese crew was able to cover them up. At 1100 hours, Birmingham set sail for Hong Kong. 
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21 Oct 1938 WW2 Kirishima launched a E8N1 Type 95 floatplane and photographed HMS Birmingham off Xiamen, China. 
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21 Oct 1939 WW2 Arthur Greiser was named the Gauleiter of Reichsgau Posen. 
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21 Oct 1939 WW2 Nobutake Kondo was named the deputy commander of the Navy General Staff. 
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21 Oct 1939 WW2 British light cruiser HMS Orion and Canadian destroyer HMCS Saguenay located German tanker Emmy Friedrich in the Yucatán Channel, and began to move to intercept. 
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21 Oct 1939 WW2 General Erich von Manstein, Chief of Staff of Army Group A, obtained a copy of Plan Yellow whilst passing through Berlin, Germany on his way to set up Army Group A Headquarters at Koblenz. He found little to admire in the plan, considering it to be too much like the strategy of 1914, and even predicting that the advance would bog down at the same place – on the Somme River in France. 
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21 Oct 1939 WW2 Germans began deporting Poles from Poznan to make the province "Germanic". 
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21 Oct 1939 WW2 The Uranium Advisory Committee in the United States, headed by Lyman Briggs of the National Bureau of Standards, met for the first time. The committee had a budget of US$6,000 at this time. 
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21 Oct 1940 WW2 Italian destroyers Manin, Sauro, Battisti, and Nullo attacked Allied convoy BN-7 in the Red Sea at 0219 hours. Nullo was damaged by HMS Kimberley and Australian sloop HMAS Yarra as the escorts counterattacked; she fled back towards Massawa, Italian East Africa and ran aground, but drew Kimberley close enough to the shore guns to hit the British ship, killing 3. 
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21 Oct 1940 WW2 British minesweeping trawler HMS Waveflower hit a mine and sank off Alderburgh, Suffolk, England; 15 were killed and 7 survived. 
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21 Oct 1940 WW2 British motor torpedo boat MTB-17 hit a mine and sank off Ostend, Belgium. 
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21 Oct 1940 WW2 German guns near Calais, France fired 6 shells at Dover, England, United Kingdom between 1400 and 1600 hours; only some of the shells detonated. 
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21 Oct 1940 WW2 Friedrich Ruge was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross medal. 
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21 Oct 1940 WW2 Scirè departed La Spezia, Italy for Gibraltar with three manned torpedoes on board. 
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21 Oct 1940 WW2 Between 1100 and 1400 hours, heavy fog limited Germans to small raids against southern England, United Kingdom and kept British fighters on the ground; as the result, bombs were successfully dropped on London, Lancashire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Sussex, and Kent; 1 Ju 88 bomber was lost. Overnight, London, Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Liverpool, and South Wales were bombed. 
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21 Oct 1941 WW2 Civilian ship Steel Architect was launched. 
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21 Oct 1941 WW2 The cruisers HMS Aurora (Captain W. G. Agnew) and HMS Penelope (Captain A. D. Nicholl) arrived in Malta and with the destroyers HMS Lance and HMS Lively formed a small squadron known as Force K. For some reason Force K always seemed to go to sea on a Saturday. 
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21 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-79 hit British gunboat HMS Gnat with a torpedo 30 miles northwest of Bardia, Libya at 0334 hours, blowing away 20 feet of her bow but caused no casualties. Gnat would be successfully towed back to Alexandria, Egypt where she would serve as a stationary anti-aircraft gun platform. 
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21 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-123 damaged British armed merchant cruiser HMS Aurania with a torpedo 400 miles west of Ireland at 0428 hours; a lifeboat launched sank with 2 killed, 3 rescued by destroyer HMS Croome, and 1 captured by U-123; Aurania was escorting Allied convoy SL-89 and would be successfully towed to port for repairs. At 2200 hours, German submarine U-82 attacked the same convoy, sinking the ships Serbino (14 were killed, 51 survived) and Treverbyn (all 46 aboard were killed). 
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21 Oct 1941 WW2 British cruiser HMS Abdiel and destroyers HMS Napier, HMS Hasty, and HMS Decoy departed Alexandria, Egypt with supplies for Tobruk, Libya, returning with men of the Australian 9th Division in the early hours of the following day. 
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21 Oct 1941 WW2 A civilian on the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic spotted a submarine off its coast, but the report was not regarded as important. The submarine was most likely German submarine U-68, which would strike on the next day. 
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21 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-106 departed Lorient, France. 
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21 Oct 1941 WW2 The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 718 adult male, 1,063 adult female, and 586 children, all Jews, were killed in Vilnius, Lithuania for a total of 2,367 people. 
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21 Oct 1941 WW2 Soviet submarine M58 hit a mine laid by the Romanians and sank in the Black Sea near the opening of the Danube River, killing all 19 aboard. 
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21 Oct 1941 WW2 Georg von Küchler was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. 
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21 Oct 1941 WW2 Troops of the German 6.Armee captured Stalino in the Donets Basin in southern Ukraine. 
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21 Oct 1942 WW2 Captain and Surgeon Masato Honma became the new commanding officer of hospital ship Hikawa Maru. 
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21 Oct 1942 WW2 Prime Minister of South Africa Jan Smuts delivered a speech to both houses of the British Parliament: "The stage is set for the last, for the offensive". 
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21 Oct 1942 WW2 Iro Ilk was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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21 Oct 1942 WW2 US Major General Mark Clark, aboard British submarine HMS Seraph (which was under disguise as an American submarine), began negotiations with Vichy French commanders in North Africa in preparation of Operation Torch. 
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21 Oct 1942 WW2 US Navy Admiral Ernest King notified commanders in the Pacific area commanders that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had agreed to strengthen the air forces in the South Pacific by 1 Jan 1943. 
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21 Oct 1942 WW2 ShCh-307 attacked an Axis convoy in the Gulf of Finland; both torpedoes missed. 
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21 Oct 1942 WW2 Tenryu conducted post-repair trials off Rabaul, New Britain. Upon returning to port, a damaged 8-centimeter anti-aircraft gun mount was replaced. 
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21 Oct 1942 WW2 Finnish submarine Vesihiisi sank Soviet submarine S-7 southwest of Aland Islands, Finland with one torpedo at 2041 hours; 44 were killed, 4 survived. 
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21 Oct 1943 WW2 The keel of submarine Bugara was laid down. 
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21 Oct 1943 WW2 Captain Minegoro Kameyama was named the commanding officer of repair ship Akashi. 
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21 Oct 1943 WW2 The personnel of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 was moved to the Russell Islands. 
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21 Oct 1943 WW2 Naka departed Shanghai, China with 485 troops of Japanese 17th Division. 
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21 Oct 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Saigon, Indochina. 
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21 Oct 1943 WW2 1,007 Jews from the Westerbork camp in the Netherlands arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. There were 87 children, 407 men and women under the age of 50 and 207 older people. After the selection 347 men and 170 women were registered. The other 409 were killed in the gas chambers. 
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21 Oct 1943 WW2 Dudley Pound passed away from brain tumor at the Royal Masonic Hospital in London, England, United Kingdom. 
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21 Oct 1944 WW2 German troops surrendered at Aachen, Germany. 
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21 Oct 1944 WW2 Canadian troops captured Breskens, the Netherlands. 
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21 Oct 1944 WW2 German Jews who were previously protected by their Aryan spouses were now deported from Germany. 
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21 Oct 1944 WW2 The German RSHA office ordered that the Gestapo were given the permission to execute foreign laborers. 
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21 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Segundo arrived at Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, ending her first war patrol. 
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21 Oct 1944 WW2 Otto Skorzeny arrived at Wolfsschanze in East Prussia, Germany. 
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21 Oct 1944 WW2 HMAS Australia was hit by a special attack aircraft off the Philippine Islands; it was unsure whether this was a Japanese Army or Navy aircraft as both branches launched tokko attacks on this date. 
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21 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Chub was commissioned into service, Commander C. D. Rhymes, Jr. in command. 
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21 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Gunnel started her seventh war patrol. 
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21 Oct 1944 WW2 Joseph Stilwell departed Chongqing, China in the afternoon for the United States via India. 
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21 Oct 1944 WW2 British V Corps crossed the Savio River in Italy. 
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21 Oct 1944 WW2 After dark, on the Savio River in northeastern Italy, Canadian Army Seaforth Highlanders Private Ernest Alvia Smith used a PIAT anti-tank launcher to destroy a German Panther tank and two self-propelled guns and then used a Thompson submachine gun to kill or repel 30 German soldiers. He would later be awarded the Victoria Cross for this action. 
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21 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Sterlet attacked a Japanese cargo ship off the southwestern coast of Amami Oshima, Japan; all three torpedoes missed. 
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21 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Wasp refueled off Philippine Islands. 
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21 Oct 1944 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Manila, Philippine Islands. 
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21 Oct 1944 WW2 Nachi departed Mako, Pescadores Islands with Cruiser Division 21. 
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21 Oct 1944 WW2 USS Astoria completed her repairs at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. 
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21 Oct 1945 WW2 British engineers destroyed the U-Boat pens in Hamburg, Germany. 
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21 Oct 1949 WW2 The United States paid 62,176,433.06 Swiss francs (not including US$4,000,000 already paid by Oct 1944) to Switzerland for accidental damage done by American bombers during the war. 
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